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Donald Ashman's avatar

This is brilliant writing and reporting.

I am moved to both tears, and rage.

I pray, that within my lifetime, the people of Iran and Cuba will again be free.

Linda I's avatar

This is a must-read. Anyone who is frustrated by civic and political challenges where our fights seem to go nowhere need to read this and realize how many people have suffered and given their lives for the common good. It takes courage and stamina to stand up to evil.

Friedrike Merck's avatar

Thank you very much for taking the time to share the extraordinary, terrifying and inspiring story of this brave woman, this Nobel Peace Laureate.

I will keep her in my prayers (as much as Agnostics pray) and will remember her resolve in my own political/civic work.

Cheri Elson's avatar

Thank you for this. What an amazing woman. I pray Iran will be free soon.

Protect the Vote's avatar

Contact your state rep/state senator to introduce a trigger law and have it in place before the election: if the federal government interferes with the election, the state will redirect federal taxes to an escrow account.

Christopher Armitage’s idea (one of his many resistance ideas to use state powers). https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/if-you-steal-our-elections-you-dont?r=56wm8i&utm_medium=ios

Eric B Lange's avatar

To that end I remind myself that nearly everything that is presented in the bubble is a paradox.

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There are no good solutions to such impossible situations.

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And similarly there is nothing that Social Media companies make more money off than a hot buttoned (lightening rodded) - button pushing - rage baiting paradox.

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^^^ That.

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For EYE_BALL_$ so many Gordion Knots of angry mouth frothing de-pretzelating - paradox - straightening blow-hards and their closest cousins.

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A veritable never ending frothy riot of EYE_BALL_$

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The algorithm has figured out my buttons get pressed for a whole forty eight hours over matters of Socrates vs Plato and did St. Augustine really save western culture single handedly or was he really much more influenced by Cicero's writing and people just connect way too many dots in a falsely attributed modern context just for "Clicks" and likes and hearts on insta - bending reality JUST for more "Engagement" / "Relevance". Or should they really be method-acting the ancients instead ?

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And yes yes even atheists can't bash the significance of Lindisfarne ...

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Who knew - I didn't even know that these things pushed my buttons and had me pacing up and down the kitchen and barn breezeway ?

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And don't get me started on Plato's fucking CAVE already ...

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Eric B Lange's avatar

As a sidenote: If one were to create a protracted test bubble that contained at least six hundred to six thousand participants eventually whittled down from tens of thousands - and then locked in (for specific environments that are easier to control - basically "buy" ) - almost like the Truman Show,

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then as producers it would be much easier to control the narratives and media if they are ALL synthetically generated.

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To interleave actual "Reality" or really regular media and news (whatever that actually means now) - with synthetically generated elements in a continuously hyper distortive way would almost be impossible to keep track of.

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A complete media reality - substitution would be much easier to manage and would not necessarily tip over the abys of a mathematically intractable problem that would just grow like some completely out of control project that un-manageably flourished beyond the fractal dimension of insurmountable complexity requiring an x^2 then x^3 then x^5 amount of staff trying to communicate requirements of just having to keep up with a multistranded interleaved ever unfolding set of "Realities". OTOH it seems that people have really short memories and that seems to take care of "Back end" problems. Important events and stories of on-going situations just vanish - consigned to oblivion and unfindable on the Web - as if these things never happened. <-- Keeping people hyper-distracted with the new plastic squeaky porkchop for a dog's attention (not just news media squirrels) also helping in the forgetment process.

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Everything is hacked - and every portal 100% authored and synthetically generated.

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Every digital and analog - medium - also correspondingly hacked. Available print media - similarly so. Corporeal people - especially so. One can try to outrun the bubble - but eventually "They" find a way to catch up and outflank one.

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I have written quite extensively and spoken somewhat extensively (especially to my captors) how one would actually get around such "Future" reality problems - via technical solutions that are fairly inviolable to the man or woman of ordinary skill in the art - and practiced gaze of - for example "Watching TV etc. ".

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I am in a uniquely isolated situation and condition.

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My ability to travel is limited to a pretty specific radius due to various injuries and specific handicaps.

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If I lived in a metropolis like New York - what they have managed to carry out would nearly be impossible to implement - just for the sheer number of people one could actually talk to or a massive news rack at an international airport. Still there are many limitations as the press is useless anyway (for the most part) and most Americans have no idea what's really going on the world anyway ? In this bubble (one of several) it is very easy - to concoct meetings and situations that have also been pre-scripted and pre-punked way beyond NPCs (non playable characters) ...

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Also a very Soviet styled approach to controlling an individual's environment.

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Where I am nothing happens by accident.

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And if it does - that becomes very surprising in itself.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

To Quote: With additions.

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" Bamber Gascoigne, having been asked by Williams to witness the burial of the hare and to document the contest from beginning to end, wrote the book Quest for the Golden Hare. He summarized his experiences thus:

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~~~ Tens of thousands of letters from Masqueraders have convinced me that the human mind has an equal capacity for pattern-matching and self-deception. <--- !

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While some addicts were busy cooking the riddle, others were more single-mindedly continuing their own pursuit of the hare quite regardless of the news that it had been found.

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Their own theories had come to seem so convincing that no exterior evidence could refute them. <^^^ -- !

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These most determined of Masqueraders may grudgingly have accepted that a hare of some sort was dug up at Ampthill, but they believed there would be another hare, or a better solution, awaiting them at their favorite spot.

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^^^ --- !

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Kit would expect them to continue undismayed by the much publicized diversion at Ampthill and would be looking forward to the day when he would greet them as the REAL discoverers of the REAL puzzle of Masquerade. <--- !

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Optimistic expeditions were still setting out, with shovels and maps, throughout the summer of 1982.]

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~~~ I do not expect that any of the bubble-a-teers to behave in any dissimilar fashion.

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My own thesis beyond conjecture that stochastically installed false belief systems are nearly impossible to completely remove and if re-stimulated can lapse readily into these prior states - regardless of education nor explanation nor proof nor attenpt at change. The mind of belief and the mind of explanation being completely separate.

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Sometimes I have to remind myself that the system is 99.9% automated and only in 0.1% of cases is there any kind of human intervention from the other side.

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In most cases the Kaleidoscopic press like behaviors of one's respective digital portals are only there to reinforce total bullshit.

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A project whose main aim is to deceive is not handing out awards for people that tried to sift tiny crumbs of accidental truth from gigantic mountains of total bullshit - in a similar manner to how Marie Curie discovered and separated Radium from over forty tons (if memory serves me right) of Pitchblende by HAND.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

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Light weight treatment ^^^ "peeps" like to remind us that she was Polish not French (so much).

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Barely scratching the surface...

Eric B Lange's avatar

Bumped for clairty:

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"If someone or a set of someone's is addicted to "Playing God" then how is it that the dark or is it dork hologram of their direct and indirect actions doesn't also grow in direct proportion to their sadistic desires and whims to reflectively drive themselves insane / mad in the process ?".

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Tricky control Hamster that's an out and out atheist that had things happen that I'm not at liberty to talk about that pertain directly to the core nature of belief itself.

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What are you trying to say here Eric...

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I can't fully imagine what it must be like to believe in a God or God's that creepily know your every thought and everything that you are doing 24/7 for every second of the day... and yet claim that the individual has FREE WILL...

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And yet KNOW exactly what you are going to do even before you do it.

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THAT - that being the near future.

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I don't know how people believe in a creepily stalky and omnipresent judgmental "God" don't go bat shit crazy to begin with.

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IF things had gone differently with the technologies I developed I could have been one of those most hated "Tech Bros" but for some reason this 'Lot" really wanted me for TEAM HUMAN against these AI mother fuckers and very cowardly AI using MFs.

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But I'm not like those guys/gals for many reasons.

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So the irony for someone to have developed the most accurate and life like VR / Immersive (large scale and screen based) recordings/ presentations (real time) that simply don't look computer(y) or rendered etc. to then be stuck in an environment that tries to act very much like a total simulation - of extreme verisimilitude but built on the Larry David Principals of a Seinfeld rule set - nobody improves as a human being and everything cycles back to an original douche baggish state, and that the set of individuals involved are in fact singularly unable to improve themselves or improve their lot. A very carefully controlled and meted out equilibrium and stasis to keep people rooted to the spot by any means possible - a never-ending stream and army of clowns seem to serve perfectly for such a stated purpose - effortlessly so - making the Key-stone cops look like total amateurs. [I.e. amateurs at deliberately obstructive and near never ending "Fine tuned" bungling. ]. These clowns are professional bunglers... Master bunglers. Each one could teach a twelve-week course on the finer points of advanced bungling... Like the Kardashian mom does or a Werner Hertzog does... or even a Cornel West does. I'm not even talking about the Democrats.

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Back in the 2005s (In technical and physical terms) - we used to come out of the cinema after watching a 3D movie - and then spill out into the car park and go 'Wow the rendering is so realistic - look at the cars sky and trees and the 3d viewing is so comfortable and natural - such incredible technology .... WOW...". As the 3D movie was so BAD at what it was supposed to do.

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On the sticker / tin of this project -Man that invents hyper realistic and near perfect stereo / VR rendering and viewing MADE to live in his own invention... Like an episode of the Twilight ZONE...

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Or Lets dig into the 'Divorced Dad trope and see how far we can get with those tropes and play with him like a cat does with a half dead mouse - for hours on end. etc. WITH chatbots. The best that the FourChan engineers could devise and throw at me.

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Ohhh yeah THEY did manage to re-simulate almost every episode of the Twilight Zone in one form or another. I think there only a handful of episodes they couldn't re-enact.

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To survive all this bullshit I have had adopt the mind set of if Cousin Heinz can survive a Russian Prison camp and hospital for ten years after the war - I can certainly make a similar attempt at survival - just as matter of "Family" pride. The Russian doctors insisted that worm had eaten part of his brain ... Making RFK Jr a copy-cat.

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A sense of humor and a sense of the ironic helps / sense of the absurd as well as nibbling a hidden chess set into existence from stubborn cardboard with your teeth, the set nestable like a Russian doll - hidden in a table leg.

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But it's always impossible to fully trust the controllers of these experiments as believing that they know what they are doing and whether they designed any of their experiments correctly or is it really just a mindless automated set of rando selected sadistic vignettes for them to further play with - an addiction that they simply cannot kick.

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If someone or a set of someone's is addicted to "Playing God" then how is it that the dark or is it dork hologram of their direct and indirect actions doesn't also drive them insane ?

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Eric ~ they're saying this all sounds like a mashup between Fargo and Maniac.

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and tone like Ewan McGreggor.

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Not necessarily Clockwork Orange.

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I hadn't really looked at it that way before.

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The problem that I have been having is with George Orwell's 1984.

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People believe in the value of the work (1984) as if it's almost a documentary that was filmed by using alternate reality future seeing "Film Cameras" - like the warnings of George Orwell as some sort of po-mo post "God age" - Atheitst Moses and hyper accurate predictor of things to come.

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The oft used Orwell quotes being like cut letters in stone tablets.

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I - having literally acted out ALL the parts for 1984 (acted and performed and read aloud ) to my remote captors every page of the book and appendices - as well as extensive notes and discussions, I find that the volume is extremely funny.

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One of the funniest books I have ever read - people generally not really understanding the "Native" wit of Eric Blair.

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In some sense almost foreshadows Tony Hitchock's various musings.

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That's ^^^ a Freudian slip Tony Handcock's various musings... Hancock (no D...). Tony.

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People forget that George Orwell was supposed to be just ONE - persona - and had he (Eric Blair) lived longer or was able to experiment to full degree of his whim and will and imagination - OTHER - pseudonyms would have been generated. A different author for a different genre and means of explanation.

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He never got to do that.

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In 1984 like many other books the narrator and author become blurred and also bleed over into the principal characters' thoughts.

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In literature there seems to be often the crime of "Sketchy cam" - "Devil's eye cam" and reach into the mind of another as if the reader / author / narrator have GOD-LIKE abilities to feel the feelings and thoughts of others and then 'splain them (in no unobvious ways). Like How on earth did they come by such information / knowledge - the viewer or reader being like a floaty near omnipresent ghost (with a shoulder mount Arri / Sony / Red etc.).

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ERIC - WHAT are you trying to say ?

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~~~ Specifically I don't trust the BBC as generally it's populated by Cambridge undergraduates that studied the equivalent of PPE (Politics Philosophy and Economics) - who don't fully understand what it is that THEY don't know and make a whole bunch of snotty false assumptions.

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~~~ Specifically As I have been told in no uncertain terms that TV producers to a Man - to a Woman and everything in between - (above and beyond) etc. // I'm not sure how many children become TV producers ? // - that TV producers are ALL total psychopaths.

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~~~ Specifically that foreign "Production" entities that act at a distance are capable of much greater psychopathy... and especially via different territory rules and jurisdictions allowing the transcription and surveillance of all environments without legal impediment. Especially if an AI based interpretive interchange "Engine" is used.

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~~~ Specifically that an entity "Like" the BBC in regard to American citizens by PPE "Types" basically think that ALL Americans are a bunch of illiterate retards and deserve everything they get as they single handedly wrecked the World economy due to people being really stupid about the way they bought their homes.

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~~~ Specifically any stupid little psychopathic / jokes / immersive experiments they carried out - in fact turned out to be VERY life threatening in a permanent way ( in the end ) and yet no legal pathway exists to seek recompence. It's more (in) the vein of Jackass if you get permanently injured directly as a result of unwitting participation - "so what " etc... In most cases the people to actually sue are unknowable or indeterminable especially in a networked and distributed system whose actual legal provenance is indirect and nebulous at best. To actually trace and find the perpetrators require a string of illegal acts to begin with and thereby the "Target" and "Targets" are already at an immediate and enduring disadvantage.

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~~~ Specifically experiments carried out that go beyond the cold-hearted gaze of a nature documentary where one cannot interfere with the natural course of life and death even if the experiment is the thing that precipitated someone to kill themselves / commit suicide - "They" would make it look like an accident etc.

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There's about one hundred of such "Complaints" / observations...^^^

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And YET some idiots still wish to pursue or force the "Absolute" truth of 1984 having completely misunderstood the work entirely.

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To that I say - I AM ALIVE and Eric Blair is DEAD ... being triangulated into proving "Orwell" was right seems completely pointless.

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I do on a personal note think that Orwell got a LOT of things right especially the Goldstein narratives and explanation of Oceania

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BUT I consider MY life to be much more important to ME than trying to prove that Eric Blair / Orwell (now dead for three quarters of century) was also "Right".

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The other thing about the bubble it tries to con people into believing they are special and their talents will eventually be realized and capitalized and raised above all else like some stupid "Talent show" as the digital portals tend to signal back everything that the target wants to hear.

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^^^ That being integral to the Illusion - delusion - allusion triangle I have written much about before.

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People in the bubble seem or even peripherally in the bubble seem to be under the delusion that the makers of the bubble hold they keys to some incredible truth and reality and if the subjects of the bubble can just figure it out* then the gates of electronic heaven will open up for them - and untold riches will be bestowed upon them ... <---- Another total bullshit assumption that other bubble-ateers make.

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On and on and on and on and on...

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Practically a six volume set - even before I am allowed to penetrate the other side of the bubble.

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* We already did that in the late 1970s and early 1980s with Masquerade (Kit William's book by a one-eyed artist and painter) - of you could figure out the riddles you could find yourself a beautifully crafted bejeweled / engraved and trinket adorned (with semi-precious stones) rabbit .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_%28book%29

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Eric B Lange's avatar

And I'm not even getting into the automated "Clickety clack" machine - automated snake / chain of selected delusion that gets annoyingly back signaled / "Back channeled " all the time.

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THIS ^^^ device is used to sucker people into believing they are "Special".

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There will be NO "Move back the bus" moment.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Why am I HERE -.

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Robert Reich - is full of shit mostly - and his pages are populated almost entirely by chatbots 99%.

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A thousand of them.

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Krugman <--- Nobel Laureate - nice - like a Kawala bear that looks scared of everything / in shell shock but carries on regardless. [zero traction really.].

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Mike (Michael Moore ) is AWOL - busy with "Something" - (that's fine with me).

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But Gazzer - he's got a brain that still works, he understands the digital experience of losing to a pile of transistors and is probably not such a fan of A-human automated systems per se + the Soviet experience he has; although 'Renew Democracy" is hard for me to get my head around in a non-ironic way.

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I patiently observe and try to learn even though everything in my environment is hacked.

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There's not many people out there that are even capable of "Getting it".

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Plus all the Chat GPT recycled garbage that people have as substack channels.

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Gary seems to have an edge. [ Assuming he's not 100% a simulation "phoning it in" .].

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But Substack for me is on a set of layers and I'm mostly the Ghost in the Machine on a very sparse separate layer alltogther.

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Probably just as well.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

When I say test hamster - I mean in MAZE like in a laboratory where the people wearing lab coats left long ago - just for sake of sanity and you can't expect a hamster with the clip board to run ALL the experiments.

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I don't mean "Test Hamster - Crash test dummy " in a Richard Gere celo-tape / Scotch tape kind of way...

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Relax it's only protracted financial and psychological torture (for someone that's already handicapped and injured five ways to Sunday) where everything and everyone is hacked and bought off like cheap hoars with draconian NDAs... The Larry David principals when actualized can get very dark indeed.

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Not literally - " the best thing you can hope for is that a gigantic jar of Vaseline is in arms reach when they relentlessly bend you over a bench without warning... ".

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^^^ That sentiment really spooked some people in a Pingu Gangsta / Penguin / Colin Feral (sp) kind of way...

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Like they were scheduled to be thrown in jail and have to experience a "Ohh can you pick up that bar of soap " in the prison shower "Sequence".

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The fake reality TV show based around the idea that one would have to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.

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This is why the "Peeps" at the feedstore seemed to indicate that it is remarkable that ANYONE would even get out of bed in the morning as being a significant "triumph" - ( of the Will - but not the Leni Riefenstahl one.).

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Having been sexually assaulted (separately and at separate times) and (gang) raped with an industrial vacuum cleaner by a group of "Boys" at age thirteen - fourteen.

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I can say that digital and corporeal "Mind Rape" and Digital menticide is far worse - as it NEVER ends.

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THIS is NOT an experience you want to sign up for. <--- Not like Tommy - Deaf Dumb and Blind kid.

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And said many times "THIS IS NOT A GAME".

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^^^ Nobody pays attention to that - so I am very skeptical of the metric used to gauge reliably various 'tests" that center around FREE WILL - as that requires a third party to determine how things are plausibly mapped.

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BUT as to the complicit abusers - I WOULD like them to walk at least two or three months in my shoes and see how they deal with their heads being fucked with 24/7 every second of the day down to a near molecular level of the limbic system "fuckment". <--- Where do they get all the money for this ? [Somebody has deep pockets.].

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And try to function and "Stay calm" ?

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"They" did not read their contracts properly - and seem to become very scared and uncertain.

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Easy to make very nervous and question what ever the hell it is that they are doing.

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Unnerved by suggestion such as (bit not limited to)...

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"How is it a Camel does not fall for the illusion of a mirage whereas other animals and humans do and die in the desert ?"

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Eric B Lange's avatar

I say 'cuz as a contraction of because - because no one in the future will be saying because they will all be saying 'cuz.

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Not to be confused with cuz <--- contraction for cousin.

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Back in the day Gary Coleman would have said something like...

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[Maybe from - Different Strokes - ],

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"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaeeee caaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuawwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeuuussssseh ".

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and Will Smith says...

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